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To: LS
If there was no crime in the first place, how could any fruit of the poison tree be used to convict someone?

A good question that I assume is the point of the Defense asking for the disclosures. Seems like Libby has hired good defense attorney's and it seems that Fitzgerald is going to look like a bumbling idiot by the time this is over.

13 posted on 02/23/2006 8:10:26 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Always Right

The point is, under the perjury and false statements statutes, a lie must be about a material fact in the investigation. If, as here, there was no underlying crime and the prosecution knew or should have known it, then a lie would not be material and the case should be dismissed.


34 posted on 02/23/2006 8:29:38 AM PST by libstripper
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